Saturday, March 3, 2012

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Happy New Year! First of all, we want to thank you, our friends and prayer
partners for making this mission trip a very memorable and meaningful year of
ministry. Most of us just returned home from UK and our hearts are filled with
joy and excitement. It was great to see the continued growth of the believers
there and the great opportunities to share the Gospel.Because of your collective prayer support, the atmosphere was electric!
Person after person shared their stories of how the main message (The most
important decision 最重要的决定), and
the testimonies touched their hearts. It became apparent to all that the God of
Heaven, who sent His Son to save the people of the world, was active in the
COCM Mission Centre!

Praise the Lord! Through the days of teaching and sharing, half of the
seekers from both camps were willing to accept Jesus as their personal savior.
Our Lord has once again let all of us witness His mighty power by making the
impossible become possible! In the family camp there were a few parents that
came to the UK
for their children's graduation and accepted the Christ, this is something we
did not expect at all. In the student camp, a few young students were openly
confessed their sins and others thanked God for healing their wounds through
His words. More exciting news is that, except working with the COCM
missionaries, we were also co-working with many local residents and students
who were seekers at the COCM Year End camps during the previous years and now
have become the new Christians/helpers for these camps!

Jesus said: "The Harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few".
Due to the huge demand and the limit of resource of pastors and church leaders
among the Chinese churches in the UK, COCM has opened its own mission centre to
host a series of training program --- B.E.S.T. - Biblical Enrichment Short
Training which contains how to study bible, spiritual growth and how to serve
and spread the gospel to help nourish and equip these new Christians.

We were so honored that He used all of us to glorify His name. What could be
more precious that we could share the gospel and celebrate His birthday with
COCM's missionaries and hundreds of our kinsmen during the year end of 2011! It
is our desire that more churches in North America will learn about the needs in
Europe and partner with COCM to win this lost
continental for God's kingdom. Please continue to keep the below requests in
your daily prayers.

* Ask the Lord to send more mid or long term missionaries to COCM * Pray that the new Christians will continue grow in His words and become
His salt and light * Pray for the returnees that they will find a good church in China and
continue to follow Christ * May the Lord use many of the BBC Christians to reach the Europeans * Pray that one day China
will become a nation of Christ to bless other countries Wishing you a healthy and joyous Chinese New Year with family and friends.

The church mission committee has
approved a short term
mission proposal to mainland China
from 7/13 to 7/23 in
2012.
The STM team will be hosting a vacation bible school for elementary
and middle school students and reach out to their parents during evening
and weekend. We encourage families and high
school/college students to join us. We'll provide curriculum
and necessary training and support. Please keep this in your prayers;
the application deadline is 1/22/2012.
Please contact Brother Raymomd Xie at xieraymond@yahoo.com for more
details.